Archive for April, 2006
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
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In this 10 minute audio training session, Cal Henderson (
Flickr.com) discusses the following topics:
- What you should put in version control
- How to deploy code rapidly
- How you can use development, staging and production environments for easy and safe deployment
- How to test
This session is from the 1-day workshop
Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget - How We Built Flickr, hosted by
Carson Workshops.

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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
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In this valuable primer to Ruby, Geoff covers everything you need to know to get rockin’ with Ruby.
Geoff discusses the following topics:
- Objects in Ruby
- Instance variables
- Model View Controllers in Ruby
- Constants
- Symbols
- Types of Strings
- Class variables
- Data structures: Hash tables
- Multi-level hashes
- Class inheritance
- Meta programming
- Getter and Setter methods
This session is from the 1-day workshop Getting Started with Rails, hosted by Carson Workshops.

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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Download the MP3
In this valuable primer to Ruby, Geoff covers everything you need to know to get rockin' with Ruby.
Geoff discusses the following topics:
- Objects in Ruby
- Instance variables
- Model View Controllers in Ruby
- Constants
- Symbols
- Types of Strings
- Class variables
- Data structures: Hash tables
- Multi-level hashes
- Class inheritance
- Meta programming
- Getter and Setter methods
This session is from the 1-day workshop
Getting Started with Rails, hosted by
Carson Workshops.

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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
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If you’re a small company on a budget, building large-scale web apps can be tricky. In this short audio training session, Ryan Carson, director of Carson Systems, shares some tips on how to make your web app scalable, when you’re on a tight budget.
This session is from the 1-day event The Future of Web Apps, hosted by Carson Workshops.

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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
A study carried out by comScore over the christmas buying period in November and December 2005 found that online searches are a very strong influencing factor in offline buying decisions.
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
A study carried out by comScore over the christmas buying period in November and December 2005 found that online searches are a very strong influencing factor in offline buying decisions.
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Monday, April 3rd, 2006
We have previously noted the risks of being hailed into foreign courts based on material posted on the Internet. See “Defamation on the Internet: Risks of Getting Hailed into Court in Distant Locations,” http://www.stoel.com/showarticle.aspx?Show=1848. ...
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Monday, April 3rd, 2006
On March 30, 2006, a federal district court in New York held that the purchase of key‑word advertising triggered by a competitor’s trademark does not constitute “use in commerce” sufficient to support a federal trademark infringement claim. See Merck ...
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